The use of tax breaks 'must be more transparent'.

Some top SOEs have been overvalued by their boards - with one worth just half its estimate, two new Treasury report say.

All the moaning about the Securities Commission being a bunch of useless layabouts has finally paid off with the release of this truly depressing communiqué.

Treasury is sitting on advice to the government about options for selling state assets, and is just waiting to be asked to produce it.

John Key has slammed bureaucratic pin-pricking over the proposed NZ financial services hub as "absolute rubbish" and stepped in to put the project on the fast-track.

More can be done to improve the tax system to promote economic growth, says Treasury secretary John Whitehead.

The Govt's budget cash deficit is wider than forecast as an expected spending surge ahead of the increase in GST failed to eventuate and companies paid less tax.

Reciever says he's not surprised the SFO is looking at certain loans.